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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 55 | Auction date: 8 October 2010 |
| Lot number: 152 | |
| Lot description: LOKRIS LOKRI OPUNTII Bronze, third quarter of 1st century BC. Æ 11.37 g., 6¢. Diademed head of Hades r., to l., poppy head. Rev. The Dioscuri galloping r. with spears [stars above their heads], below, OΠOYNTIΩN, the whole in laurel wreath. Corpus group 36, 1d. RPC 1338. BMC 88, pl. II, 12. Mionnet, Suppl. 3, p. 490, 36. The only one in private hands (but see note below), the others in the BM (2), Berlin, Vienna, the ANS (2), Thebes and Athens. Nice chocolate patina and fine to good fine. During the time that the text of this catalogue was given its final review, one more of these coins appeared in CNG’s e-sale 235, lot 345. The stars above the heads of the Dioscuri are clear on that specimen but the wheatear below the head on the obverse is not. The RPC mentions an “ear of corn(?)” below the head (surely wheat and not corn that came to Europe from the Americas) but the corpus does not. However, if the CNG cataloguer mentioned a “grain ear” in his description, he must have seen something that does not show on the web photograph. Finally, while the RPC and the corpus describe Hades as wreathed, he is clearly just diademed. Estimate: 300 CHF |  |
